Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-22
DAKOTA NEWSPAPERS.
Opinions Upon Current Topics Edi-
torially Expressed by Terri
torial Soribes.

tQridl SCFlp6S.
General @. I. Campbell (democrat) in
the South Dakota Investors Guide:
b many departures from political
ialth occur SO often piter an election for
president that it is hard for the historian
TO enamerate them or follow their ini-
qoitous results. 1t seems my duty ss o.
publisher to enumerate o few stamped
on the memory of fifty years past ana
compare them with the present unwar.
ranted indlgnIties that have for two or
three years past been heaped upon
the people of Dakota by both of the pc.
litical parties, republican and democrat
10. The great principles OF Thomas
Jefferson defined the relative positions
of the people and the government, viz:
that the govern belonged to the
people, and not the people &c the govern
ment. John Qaincy Adams died in his
chalk OK state advocating the right of
petition and demanding the government
to act upon the issue thereof
Thaddeus Stevens, the great
oommoner, died after seeing his
lite purposes accomplished by the voice
OF the people and the blood of the PEG.
pie. When, after the dead rendered to
the living a safe government, Abtahsm
Lincoln proclaimed over their hallowed
graves that this was a government of
the people, for the people and by the
people. and that 1t forever belonged to
the people," The abortive %administra-
ton of these great principles by the
present administration OF effairs IN Da-
kota is enough to sicken unto death the
best democrat or strongest republican
within The wide domain. Our admins
TRAITOR denies he petition of the people.
He gra ps the money of the people, He
denies and resclnds the laws OF the peo-
pie, or, in other words, he struts about
like q little bantam, growing ''straight-
out democracy; !" like @ little court Jester,
backed py his master and privileged to
make q scandal of the democrats Of De-
kota, and try to make believe that he is
the mud statue around which Dakota
democrats must bow.
Bismarck Settler: With south Da.
kotans it 10 really division or no edmis-
sion, and with the opponents. OF d.
vlsien it is really no admission, and
though they don't dare to advocate it
openly, the opposition to division ia
only q shift to keep us q Territory. IL
40 SlO Wioh OL VIC cdcbs ~ 10 tub WISH Vi
the democracy, it is the wish OF the
rings that seek plumber and the worn
out politicians whose death knell will
come with statehood that we remain o
territory as long as possible, and they
secure their help.
Forman sargent county, Item: SO
tar the advocates of division scenes to
have the best of the argument. The
fact is the only objection of merit ever
urged against the scheme to divide the
territory wac quashed when the 7sh
standard parable! was substituted for
the 46th as the proposed line of separa-
ton, and since that compromise no new
reason has been advanced why division
is moi practicable and in every way de-
sirable. To be sure, q few Admlnistra-
ton papers and carpet bag politicians
are still trying to evoive some kind OF
an xeuse for their opposition to the
movement, but that is to be expected.
Dakata always had and probably always
will have such enemies, isguised as
frlends-who now again seek TO weaken
ner political power by forcing their zone
grand state" dogma upon the people.
La Monre Progress: The Grand
Forks Herald chronicles the iaot that
the soldier boys from the north who
w>."t 20 ths Huron encampment all re-
turned strong dl%viBionists. "They
never want to 60 TO another enoamp-
ment in south Dakota" This is almost
precisely the language used to the
editor of the Progress, by an officer, on
his return from Huron. The coincidence
ID significant, aud proves that oil and
| water Will as readily mix as north and
south Dakotans hereafter. There is no
feeling OF attachment between the peo-
pies, and no community of interests be-
tween the sections. The only remedy
for this chronic state OF hostility, as to
| all public matters, lies in division.
Hanson County Advocate Gov. Church
appears to have got into the Yankton
asylum middle In such shape that he is
liable to get a good ROASTING before he
gets out of il. The tax payers can see
into the milestone as far rs he can peck
it. II the trustees are tho robbers and
unfaithfui~ servants OF the people that
the Gov. and his henchmen have charg-
ed, it 10 the governors plain duty under
his oath of office. to make complaint be-
fore some magistrate forthwith. Proper
proceedings would have brought the
matter to o focus long before this co
that needed improvements at the asy :
lum could have been under way. II
Church has not the backbone to bring
his thieving subordinates to. justice
without being q whole summer snsrllna
and whining about 1t, let him resign and
give us q Zeibach, Day or some Other
Dakotalan that hes some executive ablIi'
ty end can govern this territory without
all this political sham.
4 Fargo Argus: What's the use OF the
Sioux Falls Press saying that it dom
know whether the Northern Pacific rum
this country or notp Gal knowsl
Raymond Gazette: Thousands OF tom
Of hay are being stacked up all over thu
territory ready for pressing and ship
ping. It constitutes, by itself, . riol
harvest and will go TO swell the alread.
rich returns from this years bounteouI
crops to the fortunate farmers OF tn,
great territory of the northwest,
The boss screen doors at the st. Oroi
Lumber company's yard.